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Encyclopedia > Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (東華三院), with a history of 134 years, is the oldest and the largest charitable organization in Hong Kong. At present, the organization offers Medical and Health Services, Education Services and Community Services to the community with a total of 194 service centres spreading over the territory of Hong Kong. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...

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Board of Directors

The board of directors is essentially an honours list accorded to the most important donors in any particular year, and is seen by the local tabloid press as an illustration of up and coming socialites. All appointments to the board of directors of the group require the approval of the Government of Hong Kong. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... A socialite is a person (often a younger woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential social figure. ... The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China (Chinese: 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區政府; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: zung1 waa4 jan4 man4 gung6 wo4 gwok3 hoeng1 gong2 tak6 bit6 hang4 zing3 keoi1 zing3 fu2; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhōnghúa Rénmín Gònghéguó Xiānggǎng...


Hospitals

Five hospitals are under the umbrella of the group, including Tung Wah Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, TWGHs Wong Tai Sin Hospital and TWGHs Fung Yiu King Hospital, providing a total of 3,048 hospital beds (as of 31 December 2003), among which 600 are free of charge.


Schools

The group operates 52 schools in Hong Kong, including 18 secondary schools, 17 primary schools, 15 kindergartens and 2 schools for the mentally handicapped. Except for the kindergartens, the other schools are all directly funded by the government.


Schools include:

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals S. C. Gaw Memorial College (東華三院吳祥川紀念中學) is a secondary school on the Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. ...

External link

  • Official Website

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Hong Kong: Citigroup Takes the Lead with Donation to Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (712 words)
With the donation Tung Wah also applied for the "Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged" and received a matching grant in the first round of allocation.
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals was established in 1870 under the mission: "To heal the sick and to relieve the distressed, to care for the elderly and to rehabilitate the disabled, to promote education and to nurture youngsters; and to raise the infants and to guide the children."
After 135 years of development, Tung Wah has grown to become the largest non-governmental charitable organization in Hong Kong with over 10,000 staff, operating a vast network of 201 service centres including medical and health, education as well as community services.
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Chen Zao Men College at AllExperts (831 words)
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Chen Zao Men College (CZM, Traditional Chinese: 東華三院陳兆民中學) is a secondary school located at Kwai Shing East Estate, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong.
The school was initiated by the Board of Directors of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals as the fourth secondary school in the New Territories.
The Language Laboratory was established by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.
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